Category: Music history

A comprehensive history of music would take thousands of pages – music is probably just as old as humanity and has been …

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was one of the most famous German composers of the Baroque period. He is best known for adapting …

If you have studied music at school even at a basic level you are probably familiar with the Western music notation system. …

There are hundreds of different musical genres, some very popular, other bizarre or extremely unconventional. If they do have anything in common, …